Gospel: John 6:1-15

¹ After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiber’i-as.
² And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased.
³ Jesus went up on the mountain, and there sat down with his disciples.
⁴ Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
⁵ Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, “How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”
⁶ This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
⁷ Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.”
⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
⁹ ”There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many?”
¹⁰ Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place; so the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
¹¹ Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted.
¹² And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the fragments left over, that nothing may be lost.”
¹³ So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten.
¹⁴ When the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!”
¹⁵ Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.